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Ballard, Terry – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1994
Describes a study conducted to determine the main differences in online catalog searching styles and results among library staff, faculty, and patrons at Adelphi University (New York). Transaction log analysis, questionnaires, zero hit searches, keyword, author, title, subject, and other search strategies were evaluated to determine patterns of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
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Taylor, Arlene G. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1992
Review of the 1991 literature on subject access in online systems discusses users and subject searching; subject access in online catalogs, including improvement of the database, search processing, the user interface, and user understanding; subject cataloging and indexing; information retrieval; thesaurus and indexing approaches; classification;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Futures (of Society), Indexing